OSAscript cannot locate file with relative path

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#1

I have a folder “scripts” with an executable shell script “foo.sh” and a folder “assets”, and in the folder “assets” there is a file “foo.applescript”:

~/
|- scripts/
   |- foo.sh
   |- assets/
      |- foo.applescript

foo.sh:

osascript -l AppleScript -e 'set current_path to do shell script "pwd"' -e 'do shell script "assets/foo.applescript"'

When I double-click “foo.sh”, it doesn’t work. If I understand correctly, it cannot locate “foo.applescript”.

What I’m doing wrong?

#2

You scant send an AppleScript to a do shell script command., which is looking for a shell script such as ‘foo.sh’ ( i.e. a unix script)

#3

Could you explain it better?

which is looking for a shell script such as ‘foo.sh’ (i.e. a unix script)

Isn’t it looking for foo.applescript, not foo.sh?

I still don’t understand why my code doesn’t work.

#4

From an AppleScript, Try this…

run script file ((path to home folder as text) & "scripts:assets:foo.applescript")

If you compile the AppleScript first, the file extension will be ‘.scpt’
So the command would be…

run script file ((path to home folder as text) & "scripts:assets:foo.scpt")

The way you had it, you had a shell script call an AppleScript, call a shell script, then call a shell script again which calls an AppleScript. (WTF) – just kidding

but since you are calling the script from a shell script, do this…

osascript ~/scripts/assets/foo.applescript
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